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The Self-Conscious Novel : Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon / Brian Stonehill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn Studies in Contemporary American FictionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 4 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812280982
  • 9781512807325
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing -- II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity -- III. The Self-Conscious Tradition -- IV. Getting Back at James Joyce -- V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality -- VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions -- VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow -- VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS -- IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness -- X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- I. Imitation's Limitations; or, Why Writers Write About Writers Writing -- II. The Repertoire of Reflexivity -- III. The Self-Conscious Tradition -- IV. Getting Back at James Joyce -- V. Nabokov's Imitations of Mortality -- VI. Plagiarizing The Recognitions -- VII. Paradoxical Pynchon; or, The Real World Inside Gravity's Rainbow -- VIII. A Trestle of LETTERS -- IX. The Criticism of Self-Consciousness -- X. Reflexive Commentary in the Form of a Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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